Super Pink
#ce6ba6
A magenta that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ce6ba6
RGB
206, 107, 166
OKLCh
66.0% 0.143 345.0°
CIELAB (D50)
58.6, 45.2, -13.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 51% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 60.5; on black, Lc -41.2. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 23.4 and 22.4 and 60.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.34:1 — large text only
Black text
6.28:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.28:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b5558f is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ce6ba6
protanopia
#7c7ca6 · ΔE00 23.4
deuteranopia
#9191a4 · ΔE00 22.4
tritanopia
#a6a600 · ΔE00 60.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSugar Creek at ΔE00 1.405: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Sugar CreekΔE00 1.405 · #c96fa8
- Mega MagentaΔE00 2.067 · #d767ad
- Sky MagentaΔE00 2.105 · #cf71af
- Purple HollyhockΔE00 2.143 · #d96cad
- Fading LoveΔE00 2.562 · #c973a2
- Bishop RedΔE00 2.8 · #c473a9
- Nocturnal RoseΔE00 2.904 · #cc6699
- Strawberry FreezeΔE00 3.264 · #c677a8
- CrocusΔE00 3.274 · #c071a8
- Sugar RushΔE00 3.279 · #d85da1
- HeartbreakerΔE00 3.3 · #cc76a3
- Phlox PinkΔE00 3.413 · #ce5e9a
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.